Attorney Willa Jansson's mother has never balked at breaking the law, especially not for a good cause. So when Willa learns her mother has flouted federal regulations and gone off to Cuba, she figures it's just a harmless pilgrimage to lefty Graceland. But when her mother doesn't return with the rest of her peacenik tour group, Willa fears the feds might consider the trip "trading with the enemy" - with a penalty of ten years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
In Lia Matera's Havana Twist, Willa risks her career and passport by rushing to Cuba to retrace her mother's steps. But she finds that nothing there is quite as it seems. Following clues to neighborhoods tourists never see, through secret tunnels beneath the street, and into the finest luxury hotels, Willa is manipulated, misled, and nearly arrested. And in the meantime, newfound reporter friends - or are they CIA agents? - disappear as suddenly and inexplicably as her mother did.
Soon the U.S. State Department, the Cuban Interior Ministry, and Willa's old flame, San Francisco Homicide Lieutenant Don Surgelato, get into the act. But politics and police work are a poor substitute for those things only a daughter would know. So, in a deadly game of cat and mouse, Willa follows her mother's trail from Havana to Mexico City, from California back to Havana...all the while keeping barely one step ahead of two angry governments and at least one ruthless killer.
Lia Matera is a graduate of Hastings College of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Constitutional Law Quarterly. She was a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School before becoming a fulltime writer of legal mysteries. She received the Shamus Award for the best short story of 1996. She has written twelve novels and is currently at work on a new book, her next mystery. She lives in Northern California.
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Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Beaver Bridge Books, Holiday Island, AR, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. LIBRARY WITHDRAWN with typical library markings. Not price-clipped or remaindered. Mylar-protected dust jacket. Spine is moderately rolled. No highlighting. Shipped padded in a box with tracking number provided on domestic shipping. Nº de ref. del artículo: 001815
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Librería: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 271 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with silver lettering to spine over brown boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Review copy. June Jansson has long been in the habit of organizing or joining political protests. After seventeen arrests, fourteen convictions, and eleven stints in jail, she surprises no oneleast of all her doting but exasperated daughterby flouting the Trading With The Enemies Act to illegally visit Cuba. But when the rest of the lefty tour group returns without June, Willa fears her mother's bleeding heart has gotten her into more trouble than Willa can get her out of. Risking her career and her passport, Willa rushes to Cuba to retrace her mother's steps. Under the wing of newfound reporter friendsor are they CIA agents?Willa soon finds herself in Havana neighborhoods tourists rarely visit, seeing things Americans are not supposed to see. Manipulated, misled, and nearly arrested, Willa is a whisper away from triggering an international incident. Condition: Fine in like jacket. Review noticed tipped in. Nº de ref. del artículo: BOOKS003019
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Librería: The Sly Fox, Virden, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. First Edition. Nice, tight, unsold, unread first edition of this legal mystery, seventh in series. Ships in a box, fast service from a real bricks and mortar independent bookstore open since 1998. No remainder marks. Nº de ref. del artículo: 000437
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Librería: Once Upon A Crime, Minneapolis, MN, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. The seventh novel in this Shamus Award-winning author's mystery series featuring San Francisco lawyer Willa Jansson; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in dustjacket showing some very slight edgewear and slightly soiled white areas. Nº de ref. del artículo: 001297
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Librería: Persephone's Books, Gastonia, NC, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. 271 pp. The jacket is very lightly rubbed along the upper edge. The seventh Willa Jansson mystery. Nº de ref. del artículo: 010432
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Librería: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Quarter bound in brown cloth over brown boards, silver lettering on spine. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Very light wear to unclipped dust jacket, including small coffee stain on front panel, else as new. AS NEW/NEAR FINE. Willa Jansson Mysteries Series. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 271 pp. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9304
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Librería: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. Author of PRIOR CONVICTIONS and A RADICAL DEPARTURE both of which were nominated for the Edgar Award. Two of her other previous ten novels, THE GOOD FIGHT, and WHERE L AWYERS FEAR TO TREAD, were each nominated for the Anthony and Macavity Awards.As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. O. Nº de ref. del artículo: 4308
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